Abandoning LJ
10 Aug 2007 07:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nephirI've been thinking a lot about leaving LJ and have decided that I am.
It started with the ban on pictures of women breastfeeding -- it was deemed obscene by the friendly LJ staff. I can only think that none of them were breastfed as babies and so don't understand the nature of the act.
Then there was the great strikeout of 07.... where a small special interest group decided that they knew what should be on LJ and what shouldn't. Then the great retraction of 07, along with the hopes that by back-peddling and redirection folks would be willing to buy permanent accounts that were going on sale.
And now there is the great art fiasco and banning of fandom artists.
I don't really care what LJ's excuses are, nor why they are choosing to treat a portion of their client base this way. They own JL and they can do whatever the hell they want with it, regardless of how their customers feel.
We've seen much larger corporations do this without talking to their customers and fall when the customers didn't appreciate it. New Coke anyone?
I choose to not spend my money on a company that labels me with terms like pedophile, freak and pervert because I read and write Harry Potter fanfiction. It doesn't matter to them that the fiction I have written is always between two characters of consenting ages....the fact that the books dealt with children makes anything written in the fandom pedophilia in their eyes.
So with this I say so long and thanks for all the fish..... I'm moving over to Insane Journal, where I own the content that I post in my journal and if there is a complaint about it, the TOS says that they will contact me about it.
No arbitrary decisions and ugly namecalling.
No LJ staff posting abusive and negative things about their customers in forums.
Come on over and see me sometime. I have the same name and everything.
It started with the ban on pictures of women breastfeeding -- it was deemed obscene by the friendly LJ staff. I can only think that none of them were breastfed as babies and so don't understand the nature of the act.
Then there was the great strikeout of 07.... where a small special interest group decided that they knew what should be on LJ and what shouldn't. Then the great retraction of 07, along with the hopes that by back-peddling and redirection folks would be willing to buy permanent accounts that were going on sale.
And now there is the great art fiasco and banning of fandom artists.
I don't really care what LJ's excuses are, nor why they are choosing to treat a portion of their client base this way. They own JL and they can do whatever the hell they want with it, regardless of how their customers feel.
We've seen much larger corporations do this without talking to their customers and fall when the customers didn't appreciate it. New Coke anyone?
I choose to not spend my money on a company that labels me with terms like pedophile, freak and pervert because I read and write Harry Potter fanfiction. It doesn't matter to them that the fiction I have written is always between two characters of consenting ages....the fact that the books dealt with children makes anything written in the fandom pedophilia in their eyes.
So with this I say so long and thanks for all the fish..... I'm moving over to Insane Journal, where I own the content that I post in my journal and if there is a complaint about it, the TOS says that they will contact me about it.
No arbitrary decisions and ugly namecalling.
No LJ staff posting abusive and negative things about their customers in forums.
Come on over and see me sometime. I have the same name and everything.
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Date: 10 Aug 2007 19:24 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10 Aug 2007 21:08 (UTC)Glad you've moved. IJ is nice and friendly and squeaky listens to people's complaints, and does something about them and actually communicates with users. Clearly. And Concisely. And without burying half the info in the comment threads.
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Date: 10 Aug 2007 22:48 (UTC)